FYI
*7th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association (APA) - Lisbon,
June 4-7 2019*
*NOVA – School of Social Sciences and Humanities - Universidade Nova de
Lisboa.*
*The period for submission of paper proposals is extended until January 21,
2019*
*PANEL 32* "BODY MAKING, BODY HACKING: ENHANCEMENT TECHNOLOGIES AND
(POST?)HUMAN PRESENTES"*
Enhanced bodies, post-human bodies, better performances: this panel
addresses the cosmetic consumption of enhancement biotechnologies and
body-hacking as practices of self-making in shifting economic and
socio-historical contexts.
The technological capacity to transform biology, relying on advances in
genetic engineering, pharmacology, cybernetics and nanotechnology, has
spurred a variety of devices to manipulate human bodies that are commonly
defined as "enhancement technologies". Under this definition are included
biotechnologies as different as aesthetic plastic surgery, skin bleaching
treatments, smart and lifestyle drugs, hormonal therapies and biohacking
implants. In this panel we suggest to refer to the cosmetic consumption of
biotechnologies of enhancement, meaning the use of biotechnologies by
"healthy" individuals with the aim to ameliorate their aspects or
performances rather than to treat a pathology. Our aim is to open a
reflection on enhancement practices within shifting economic and
socio-historical contexts, asking: what aspirations underlie biological
self-making through enhancement technologies? What are the logics, limits
and foresights of body manipulations? Can these practices endorse or
challenge analytical concepts of humanity and post-humanity in social
sciences? We encourage papers that address, enhancement biotechnologies as
practices of self-making, gendered self-construction projects through body
modification, transnational geographies of biotechnologies of enhancement
and their markets, body-hacking practices and bio-hacking advocacy for
universal access to biotechnologies.
Panel conveners: Francesca De Luca, Maria Concetta Lo Bosco (ICS-University
of Lisbon)
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*The panel is an initiative of the research project "EXCEL. In pursuit of
excellence"-PI Chiara Pussetti, funded by the the Portuguese Foundation for
Science and Technology (PTDC/SOC-ANT/30572/2017) and hosted by the
ICS-University of Lisbon.
*Research Interests: *
Plastic Surgery
<https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Plastic_Surgery>, Medical
Anthropology <https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Medical_Anthropology>,
Anthropology
of the Body <https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Anthropology_of_the_Body>
, Biotechnology <https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Biotechnology>,
Cognitive
Neuroscience <https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Cognitive_Neuroscience>
, Hacking <https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Hacking> e Body
Modification <https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Body_Modification>
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*Maria Concetta Lo Bosco*
Project Manager / Gestora de Projeto
ERC - THE COLOUR OF LABOUR <http://www.colour.ics.ulisboa.pt>
Institute of Social Sciences <http://www.ics.ulisboa.pt>, University of
Lisbon
Av. Prof. Aníbal Bettencourt, nº 9,1600-189 Lisbon
e-mail:
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*Maria Concetta Lo Bosco*
Project Manager / Gestora de Projeto
ERC - THE COLOUR OF LABOUR <http://www.colour.ics.ulisboa.pt>
Institute of Social Sciences <http://www.ics.ulisboa.pt>, University of
Lisbon
Av. Prof. Aníbal Bettencourt, nº 9, 1600-189 Lisbon
e-mail:
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